Fragility Of An Unbroken Glass | Poetry | Yahuza Usman

Fragility Of An Unbroken Glass gives a sheer insight into the abyss of pain. This undiluted form of artistry...— Pawners Paper Magazine

Fragility Of An Unbroken Glass gives a sheer insight into the abyss of pain. This undiluted form of artistry allows, not only allows the readers to glimpse the poet's thoughts, but also leaves a stamp of reminiscence on their thoughts.

FRAGILITY OF AN UNBROKEN GLASS

It’s night again, and darkness looms more

in my head than ever before. My heart

is filled with aching reminiscences

that deserve to be written, yet my hands

are too broken to write a poem of hope. 

I pick up a pen and watch it dance in pain

like a feverish bird. My eyes are held captive

by the stainless steel screen of my laptop. 

This night is getting to its maturity, 

and my heart is becoming a grove of pains

that need wee[d]ding and watering. 

The thought of losing becomes a tsunami, and 

the reality of young being caged by birds rotates

every organ in my body. My heart is composed 

of flesh, yet it is becoming too fragile to hold itself.

I feel it breaking, collapsing, dissolving, and freezing 

into thin ice surrounded by unfavourable weather.

I can’t think of anything that knows how to smile, anything

that learns the rules of taking a heart.

I cry. I fall. I break. I collapse. 

I want to call on my Lord for aid, yet 

I can’t think of words anymore.

The night is still deepening its dimness, and 

I watch it turn into a shade of flames. 

This heat is what causes my heart [the thin ice] to evaporate 

into the sky and become suspended smoke,

floating in the sky but never to dwell in my body again—

gone for a gone ghost

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About The Poet

Yahuza Usman, co-athour of the book "Let Me Grieve", is a Wikimedian, Nigerian poet, short-story writer, essayist and the Secretary of the Taraba Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation from Al-Mishkat Academy Jalingo, Taraba State. 

He has his works published by Al-Mir'aatuh Magazine, World Voices Magazine, Literary Yard, Itell Stories and Everything Beautiful, ArtingArena, Afrihil Press, Opinion Nigeria, Synchronized Chaos Magazine, The Daily Pointers, and elsewhere. Yahuza is Hafiz, a typist, a graphic designer, and a networker who bears "Crawling Writer" as his pseudonym.

 Twitter handle: @YahuzaUsmanJ